1915 National Champion: And Who Else Claims It
DISPUTEDCornell (9-0) is named by every major retroactive selector for 1915; Pittsburgh's claim rests solely on Parke Davis's separate count.
The case for each side
Claimed by the program: no recognized selector picked them
8-0; credited only by Parke Davis, not by Helms or the National Championship Foundation, which both named Cornell alone.
Pittsburgh’s 1915 scheduleNo national title game was played after the 1915 season: before 1998 there was no mechanism to play one, which is why so many of these seasons were settled by vote instead.